Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. Fir Tree College is the nearest published school at 457 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WN6 8ET
Shevington with Lower Ground & Moor · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN6 8ET
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN6
- Postcode sector
- WN6 8
- Latitude
- 53.574057
- Longitude
- -2.699420
- British National Grid easting
- 353,783
- British National Grid northing
- 408,832
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Shevington with Lower Ground & Moor · E05015007
- Parish or community
- E04000014
- Westminster constituency
- Wigan · E14001585
- Output area
- E00032019
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 003D · E01006314
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 003 · E02001289
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WN6
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Calico Wood Cottage, Houghton Lane, Shevington, Wigan, WN6 8ET | 17 August 2018 | £410,000 |
| 1, Houghton Lane, Shevington, Wigan, WN6 8ET | 18 July 2006 | £96,875 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 457 m
Fir Tree College
Special post 16 institution
- 708 m
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 842 m
Shevington Vale Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 22
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Burglary 1
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- WN6 8 residents
- 11,683
3 female, 1 male
Age bands in WN6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
2,057 residents
1,174 residents
2,795 residents
3,341 residents
2,743 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN6 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
9
within 5 km
SHEVINGTON SURGERY
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
0 m
STANDISH MEDICAL PRACTICE
49 HIGH STREET, STANDISH, WIGAN, WN6 0HD
ODS code P92014
2.8 km
MARSH GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HARROW ROAD, MARSH GREEN, WIGAN, WN5 0QL
ODS code Y02885
3.5 km
BRADSHAW MEDICAL CENTRE
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
4.1 km
BEECH HILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
278 GIDLOW LANE, BEECH HILL, WIGAN, WN6 7PD
ODS code P92010
4.2 km
NEWTOWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEMBERTON PC RESOURCE CTR, SHERWOOD DRIVE, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92021
4.4 km
PEMBERTON SURGERY
SHERWOOD DRIVE, PEMBERTON, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92019
4.4 km
THE DICCONSON GROUP PRACTICE
FROG LANE, WIGAN, WN6 7LB
ODS code P92003
4.5 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
4.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Gray Lane
BCT · Shevington
- 0.2 miles
Gray Lane
BCT · Shevington
- 0.2 miles
Gathurst Golf Club
BCT · Shevington
- 0.2 miles
Miles Lane
BCT · Shevington
- 0.2 miles
Miles Lane
BCT · Shevington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 003D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,863 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
22 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.